Tell Me What to Read: Round 3 (and a Giveaway!)
It’s the first day of school for me! I probably could not be more excited.
In the meantime, while I’m off teaching about the Caldecott award, how to use the Dewey Decimal System, and reading aloud until my voice disappears, please leave me your suggestions for Tell Me What to Read, Round 3!
It can be any genre, any age level, and have been published last week or three hundred years ago. You can pick it because it’s a book that everyone should read or because it changed your life or because it is great literature or just because it entertained you. You can DEFINITELY suggest the same book you suggested last month.
Here’s how it goes:
- Comment with the title of one book you think I should read (any book you want). One title only, please, lest my brain explode.
- Tomorrow, I’ll select one comment at random.
- On the off-chance that I’ve already read the book you select, I’ll contact you and ask for a follow-up suggestion (make sure there is a way to contact you either by blog or email).
- I’ll get a copy of the book and read it by the end of September.
- I’ll write a review of it here. Even if I hate the book, I will not hate you.
And. . .go!
But wait, before you go, yesterday, I reviewed A Season of Gifts, and I have an extra advance reader copy of it that I’m giving away. Go comment on this post if you want to throw your name in the ring.
Happy Tuesday!
I'm going for a repeat of last month: Amy's Eyes, by Richard Kennedy. I first read it in 2nd grade and it has been a favorite ever since.
The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans
Have you read Cry the Beloved Country? (Author: Alan Paton)
xox
The Kite Runner.
Til We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
Yes, I will suggest it a third time: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein.
The Green Mile.
Just finished it–loved it.
East by Edith Pattou OR Sun & Moon, Ice & Snow by Jessica Day George. (Both are retellings of the same fairy tale and I really liked both of them.)
Oh and I LOVE Miss Rumphius. That's one that I remember my mom reading to me and when I have a big yard I'm going to plant lupines.
The Memory of Running Awesome awesome book.
Love Carly Jane's book. That was one of my all time favorites as well…
My suggestion this month is
The Hiding Place
by Corrie Ten Boom
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Oh, and I hope you had a fabulous first day at school!
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald. True story…is a movie starring Matt Damon. Excellent true (white collar) crime non-fiction.
Izzy Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt. I have read this book so many times over the years and I love it.
I don't know if I'm too late, but I'll throw out Oryx and Crake again.
Master and Commander by Patrick Obrian. According to the NYTimes, the best historical fiction ever written. Tough but rewarding. This is the first of a long series and you might recall they made a movie of this first book with Russell Crowe.
I suggest Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. Mostly because I'm leading a discussion of it over at Very Bookish and I want people to read along!
If you haven't already picked today… I was slow in thinking.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (Juv. Fiction)
I'm late to the party, but I just finished the first book in the Fablehaven series (called Fablehaven itself!) and loved it. Maybe you've already read it or the others in the series, but it was really a quick and fun read.